A text-to-HTML editor for creating Web pages. Created in 2004 by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, Markdown was created to make it easy to code HTML pages. Following is an example of Markdown and the resulting website that is created (
Syntax and
License are links).
Resulting Text on Website
(You can use this '.text' suffix trick to view the
Markdown source for the content of each of the
pages in this section, e.g. the Syntax and License
Pages.) Note: Syntax and License are links.
Markdown Text
(You can use this '.text' suffix trick to view the
Markdown source for the content of each of the
pages in this section, e.g. the [Syntax][s_src]
and [License][l_src] pages.)
[s_src]: /projects/markdown/syntax.text
[l_src]: /projects/markdown/license.text